Nanci Griffith Goodnight To A Mother's Dream Lyrics

Flippin' bottle caps through the ring around the moon

All alone on a Saturday night with the stars in bloom

I am a vision of my mother's dream come true

Built this house out in the hills

All by my own will

I've got love enough for two

But it's just me and this old moon

 (chorus)

 And the sailors on the water

 ...They all want the captain's daughter

 They want her beauty and her youth

 To grace their bow out on the sea

 Me, I'm getting older and I'm plain

 As plain can be

 Got a bank full of mother's dreams

 Maybe mother just didn't see

 That love would be the only thing

 Her daughter would ever need



(bridge)

Oh, I am the heart not taken

The one thought not worth breakin'

I am the late blooming rose

With only her mother's dream to hold

On this less travelled road

Who really knows

...Maybe the hearts not taken

Are truly made of gold

I'm gonna flip one more bottle cap up at the moon

I've got an early call with so much work to do

But, when I go inside I'm gonna let my back door slam

Mother, to tell you the truth

I would trade your dream away

Just to hear some loved one say

I love you, too

(repeat chorus)

(tag)

Say goodnight to the moon

I'll say I love you to the moon...

And to my mother too

'Buenos suenos' to the moon